Hydroelectric Power and Anishinaabe Diets: What Oral Testimony Suggests About Managing Food (In)Security on Reserve : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Summer 2020, no. 33: Hydroelectric Power and Anishinaabe Diets: What Oral Testimony Suggests About Managing Food (In)Security on Reserve

The arrival of settlers on the Winnipeg River in Northwestern Ontario resulted in drastic changes to the natural system’s ecology and the livelihood of First Nations like Niisaachewan Anishinaabe Nation (NAN). Community members emphasize the loss of manomin (“wild rice” in English), a complex carboh...

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Main Authors: Mehltretter, Samantha, Luby, Brittany, Bradford, Andrea
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany 2020
Subjects:
environmental history
environmental humanities
crops
dams
indigenous people
manomin
manoomin
anishina*
First Nations
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9112
http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/9112/
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Summary:The arrival of settlers on the Winnipeg River in Northwestern Ontario resulted in drastic changes to the natural system’s ecology and the livelihood of First Nations like Niisaachewan Anishinaabe Nation (NAN). Community members emphasize the loss of manomin (“wild rice” in English), a complex carbohydrate, in histories of colonial contact, and bodily and economic decline. Elders at NAN attribute manomin decline specifically to changes to water level patterns in the twentieth century. Listening to Anishinaabe histories inspires new approaches to addressing food (in)security on reserve, encouraging researchers to address declining yields from the water—not just the land.

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